Microlab are hitting the UK market hard of late, updating the renowned SOLO7C stereo speaker system with various improvements upon the original and coming out with the successor, the SOLO9C. Offering a vastly expanded input/output over the 7C which has just 2x RCA input sources, the 9C also offers optical Toslink, co-axial and a HDMI input/output for lossless audio from your Blu-ray player. This will have media centre/ home cinema enthusiasts drooling with delight at the possibilities. The specification of the 9C is comparable to the 7C with various tweaks to the signal to noise ratio (SNR) and channel separation. The most obvious changes that will be of consequence to the end user other than the expanded I/O will be the slightly larger 1.5" tweeters, the extra 17mm height and the extra 15W RMS output per speaker that give a total of 140W RMS, which is nothing to sniff at.